Defeat Quotes - page 2

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us. (Abdul Kalam)
There are many victories worse than a defeat. View quote
George Eliot
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us. View quote
William O. Douglas
Recipe for greatness To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief, to be victor over anger, to smile when tears are close, to resist evil men and base instincts, to hate hate and to love love, to go on when it would seem good to die, to seek ever after the glory and the dream, to look up with unquenchable faith in something evermore about to be, that is what any man can do, and so be great. View quote
Zane Grey
Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that we not lose time and we commit all forces so that we can draw off as many divisions as possible from Kharkov. And even if we do not draw them off, at least we will not give Manstein the ability to take any of his units from our part of the front. If we attract one or two German tank divisions - it will be the best contribution to the defeat of the enemy in the south. View quote
Aleksandr Vasilevsky
Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski
The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest. View quote
Steven Brust
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. View quote
Henry Miller
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. View quote
Carl Sandburg
Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace. View quote
Margaret Drabble
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. View quote
Napoleon Hill
The roots of defeat which were put down by some of the elements of our party in the two or three years after 1980 made victory difficult to achieve. View quote
Neil Kinnock
To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat. View quote
Greg Bear
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality. View quote
James A. Michener
We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate. View quote
George William Russell
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. View quote
Sun Tzu
If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost. View quote
Zig Ziglar
The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants. View quote
Gichin Funakoshi
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time. (Malcolm X)
I have the kind of personality that I always look ahead than look at what's happened. It does help a lot, especially when you've done badly or you've failed. It's instinctive of me that I look at what's next, I look ahead a lot, and start preparing for that, in victory and in defeat. View quote
Rahul Dravid
Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it. View quote
Nadine Gordimer
There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat. View quote
Ann Landers
Allied air power was the greatest single reason for the German defeat. View quote
Albert Kesselring